Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, born in California to voice artist Pat Musick. Whitman started her career as a toddler — she was discovered after interrupting Musick while the latter was auditioning for a role. She played the daughter of Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman, President Whitemore's daughter Patricia in Independence Day, George Clooney's daughter in One Fine Day, and Sandra Bullock's daughter in Hope Floats. She also had recurring parts in Chicago Hope and JAG.
Illustrating the tendency of child stars to make the jump to voice acting later in their careers, Mae has done several well-known character voices, beginning with Lil' Suzy in Johnny Bravo.
She replaced Christy Carlson Romano as the voice of Final Fantasy VII's Yuffie. She is also the voice of Agent Xero in The Modifyers, Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rose in American Dragon: Jake Long, Batgirl in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and DC Super Hero Girls, Wonder Girl on Young Justice (2010), April O' Neill in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Amity Blight on The Owl House, Becky Bot in Doug Unplugs , and is the first actor to give a voice to Disney's iconic pixie Tinker Bell.
On the live-action side, she is notable for her Recurring Character role as "Ann Veal", The Nondescript girlfriend of George Michael, in Arrested Development.note She also played Mary Elizabeth in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In addition, she played Roxy Richter in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World where most of her screen time, oddly enough, is spent trying to kill Michael Cera. She's also played the role of Amber Braverman, Troubled, but Cute daughter of Sarah Braverman in the NBC series Parenthood. Lastly, she spent three seasons as Annie Marks, messy little sister of Beth Boland (Christina Hendricks), on Good Girls.
She is pansexual, coming out in August 2021.
Selected filmography:
Live-action
- When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) as Casey Green
- Bye Bye Love (1995) as Michelle Goldman
- Chicago Hope (1996-99) as Sara Wilmette
- Independence Day (1996) as Patricia Whitmore
- Early Edition (1996) as Amanda Bailey
- Friends (1996) as Sarah
- One Fine Day (1996) as Maggie Taylor
- The Gingerbread Man (1998) as Libby Magruder
- Hope Floats (1998) as Bernice Pruitt
- JAG (1998-99, 2001) as Chloe Madison
- Judging Amy (1999) as Darcy Mitchell
- Providence (1999) as Frances Carlyle
- State of Grace (2001-02) as Emma Grace McKee
- Century City (2004) as Erin Pace
- Cold Case (2004) as Eve Kendall
- Arrested Development (2004-06, 2013) as Ann Veal
- CSI (2004) as Glynnis Carson
- Going Shopping (2005) as Coco
- Phil of the Future (2006) as Crying Girl
- Desperate Housewives (2006) as Sarah
- Grey's Anatomy (2007) as Heather Douglas
- Justice (2007) as Jenny Marshall
- Bionic Woman (2007) as Becca Sommers
- Ghost Whisperer (2007) as Rachel Fordham
- ER (2007) as Heather
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008) as Cassidy Cornell / Helen Braidwell
- In Treatment (2008-10) as Rosie Weston
- Nights in Rodanthe (2008) as Amanda Willis
- Spring Breakdown (2009) as Lydia
- Criminal Minds (2009) as Julie
- Parenthood (2010-15) as Amber Holt
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) as Roxanne "Roxy" Richter
- Weeds (2012) as Tula
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) as Mary Elizabeth
- Web Therapy (2013) as Blair Yellin
- Masters of Sex (2013) as Patient
- Suburgatory (2014) as Caris
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) as Prostitute
- The Duff (2015) as Bianca Piper
- Freaks of Nature (2015) as Jenna Zombie
- Drunk History (2016) as Lyudmila Pavlichenko
- Gilmore Girls: A Year in Life (2016) as Marcy
- CHiPs (2017) as Beebee
- Room 104 (2017) as Liza
- Duck Butter (2018) as Ellen
- Good Girls (2018-21) as Annie Marks
- Kidding (2020) as Chloe
Voice acting
- What A Cartoon! Show (1995, 1997) as Little Girl, Little Suzy
- Duckman (1996) as Baby Rose
- The Legend of Calamity Jane (1997) as additional voices
- Johnny Bravo (1997, 1999-2001, 2003-04) as Little Suzy, additional voices
- Cartoon Network Racing (2006)
- Superman: The Animated Series (1997) as Young Lois Lane
- The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries (1999) as Little Girl #1
- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) as Girl
- Jingle Bells (1999) as Beth
- The Wild Thornberrys (2000) as Antoinette
- Godzilla: The Series (2000) as Meg
- Teacher's Pet (2000-02) as Leslie Dunkling
- Max Steel (2000) as Jo
- The Zeta Project (2002) as Amy
- Fillmore! (2002-04) as Robin Spencer, additional voices
- The Jungle Book 2 (2003) as Shanti
- Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (2003) as various characters
- EverQuest II (2004) as Lilly Ironforge, Thana Rumblehoof
- American Dragon: Jake Long (2005-07) as Rose, additional voices
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) as Katara, additional voices
- Kingdom Hearts II (2006) as Yuffie Kisaragi
- Dirge of Cerberus (2006)
- Kingdom Hearts III: Re𝄌Mind (2020)
- The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (2007) as Cynder
- The Simpsons (2008-13, 2015-19) as various characters
- Disney Fairies (2008-14) as Tinker Bell
- Disney Infinity 2.0 (2014) and Disney Infinity 3.0 (2015)
- Glenn Martin, DDS (2009) as Amish Girl, Trailer Park Teen
- The Cleveland Show (2009-10) as Piper Gold, Softball Captain
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2010) as Batgirl
- The Modifyers (2010) as Lacey Shadows, Agent Xero
- Robot Chicken (2011, 2015, 2019, 2021) as various characters
- Young Justice (2012-13, 2019, 2021) as Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl, additional voices
- Young Justice: Legacy (2013)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012-17) as April O'Neil, various characters
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2013)
- Dragons: Riders of Berk (2012, 2015-18) as Heather
- Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse (2012) as additional voices
- American Dad! (2013-14, 2019) as various characters
- The Wind Rises (2013) as Kayo Horikoshi, Kinu
- DC Super Hero Girls (2015-18) as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl
- Rock Dog (2016) as Darma
- Voltron: Legendary Defender (2017) as Plaxum
- Prey (2017) as Danielle Sho
- Big Mouth (2017) as Tallulah Levine
- Where's Waldo? (2019) (2020) as Thumbelina
- The Owl House (2020-23) as Amity Blight
- Doug Unplugs (2020-21) as Becky Bot
- Invincible (2021) as Connie, Model
- Skull Island (2023) as Annie
- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) as Roxie Richter
Associated Tropes:
- Contractual Purity: Lampshaded and mocked when on Talkin' Toons with Rob Paulsen she answers Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? as Tinker Bell, "Drink camomille tea and sit on our asses?", then breaks character and jokes that Disney would probably fire her and find a new Tinker Bell for saying that.
- Meme Acknowledgment: Reviewed
the movie her (2013) in one tweet by giving it a "Her? stamp of approval". - Nice Girl: Some of her roles are this.
- Short Teens, Tall Adults: 5'1" Whitman was cast as the lead of the 2015 high school comedy film The DUFF...at the age of 26.
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: Whitman is openly pansexual and has played such lesbian characters as Amity Blight on The Owl House and Roxy Richter (or Roxie, depending on the adaptation) in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
